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Veratai’s Deep Research Agent Runway
Our proven process for integrating a bespoke AI agent into your business workflow
Get faster, better, cheaper expert research.
Turn lengthy, complex research tasks into a single click.
Free your team to focus on insights and analysis, not trawling for information.
Lots of time spent researching? Worried your process means missing key information?
Informational research is foundational to knowledge work today. If your team is organised around it, you'll probably have some common challenges, such as:
Discovering important news and information often seems driven by chance, rather than being a systematic process.
Where systematic processes for gathering news and information exist, trawling through it is either incredibly time-consuming or not done consistently.
Where your teams need to search the web, you’re never sure you’ve found everything you need to know about.
Your knowledge and know-how live in your teams’ heads; automation has always been a non-starter.
You’ve tried getting AI to support your research, but your needs are too specific or too complicated; they can’t do it properly.
If these sound familiar, then a Deep Research Agent is ideal for you.
Let us help you
Want to know more? We offer a free 30-minute consultation (not a sales call). We bring our expertise to help you understand if your team could benefit from a research agent, and give you actionable next steps so you can get started.
What is a Deep Research Agent?
A deep research agent is a productivity multiplier for teams that do a lot of informational research and analysis. Searching, sorting and synthesising information from vast datasets is both mind-numbing and a waste of expertise.
Your teams should instead be spending their time turning information into insights, advice and decisions.
A deep research agent:
Searches, sorts and synthesises information at scale, faster and more cost-efficiently than people can
Follows your research and evaluation procedures precisely
Unleashes your experts to focus on the high value add activities of their roles.
Ditch your reliance on news alerts, document searches and social media timelines
Veratai has a proven, repeatable method for designing, building and running bespoke research agents that deliver business value from the outset.
Figure out the most effective way to assist your team with their research
We’ll help you to:
Design and test an agent to boost their productivity
Slot that agent into your existing business workflows
Run it, improve it and maintain it whilst your teams focus on delivering their expertise
Humans + Machines > Humans
After working with us, you’ll have a research agent that runs 24/7, never sleeps and never tires. Use it to:
Boost Efficiency
Improve Quality
Increase Staff Satisfaction
Increase Throughput
Why Veratai?
Research Agents are a brand-new technology, enabled by modern AI.
Since the first Research Agents were demonstrated in 2024, Veratai have been building them constantly. No consultancy has been working on Deep Research Agents for longer than we have.
We’ve distilled what we have learned into three core principles:
It’s all about the analysis
The power of a research agent depends entirely on how well you have analysed, understood and evaluated your research process.
We bring a set of consulting tools and techniques to the table to flush out all of the undocumented processes, tacit knowledge and hidden “gotchas” that can derail automation projects
Our agents evolve
Deep Research is a specialist field and one we work hard to stay at the forefront of. Expect us to bring the latest, proven techniques to each engagement.
But our software is ready to go
We have a reference design for our agents, meaning we don’t have to re-invent the wheel or charge you for boilerplate software engineering.
Every hour we spend building your agent, we spend customising it to your unique ways of working.
What do you get?
A working Deep Research Agent designed for your business and your workflow.
Deployed either in-house or within our cloud estate.
Full integration into your existing ways-of-working – no re-engineering your business around the tools!
Either handed over to your teams or managed by us on your behalf.
How does It work?
Our process has been developed by distilling 2 years of agents and 20 years of AI and Data Science consulting knowledge into a well-tested formula for success.
Stakeholder Analysis & Expert Engagement
Identify affected parties, select domain experts, and conduct structured interviews to map existing workflows and elicit tacit knowledge.
Data Curation &
Modelling
Address data gaps through labelling, synthetic generation, or acquisition; develop logical data models for all process inputs and outputs; establish evaluation metrics..
Requirements & Governance Definition
Establish functional and non-functional requirements, define system constraints, determine implementation approach, and specify governance guardrails.
System & Agent
Design
Specify system architecture and integrations, design agent state graph and tool registry, develop data indexes, and create initial prompt structures.
Resource & Data
Cataloguing
Document data sources and tools utilised in the current process, assess machine accessibility, and assemble relevant artifacts including inputs, outputs, and intermediate work products.
Iterative Implementation & Optimisation
Build functionality incrementally with observability, conduct expert reviews, refine prompts and demonstrations, implement guardrails, and optimise for cost and performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Many, many tasks! Competitive intelligence, regulatory monitoring, literature reviews, underwriting research, prospect research, investment analysis, market research, legal opinion gathering, customer feedback, product research, deal sourcing, commodities research, industry or company news aggregations, and much more.
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We recommend:
Starting with a phone call to discuss your idea.
A half day workshop to flesh out a plan.
One month to produce a proof-of-concept.
Another 1 - 2 months to see an initial, operating product.
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None! We’ll work with whatever you have – though the more examples of past research you have, the easier it’ll be to hit the ground running.
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Very little: just a very modest application support budget once the agent is ready. That said, many clients realise that their first agent is just the tip of the iceberg, and want their agents to grow more powerful and capable over time, so development can have a “long tail” if you want it to.
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Very naturally. We have options for you, including:
Integrating privacy-conscious solutions to index and search your internal knowledge bases.
Adding an MCP client to the agent so it can access your SaaS platforms.
Building custom MCP servers to integrate your business systems.
What Next?
If you think you could benefit from a research agent, or aren’t sure but want to know more, we offer a free 30-minute consultation (not a sales call).
We bring our expertise to help you understand if your team could benefit from a research agent, and give you actionable next steps so you can get started.